Shmuel Trigano

Shmuel Trigano, Senior FellowShmuel Trigano is Professor of Sociology of Religion and Politics at the University of Paris. He has published 18 books and edited numerous others in the fields of Jewish and Jewish Political Philosophy, Identity, Modernity, Contemporary Judaism, French Jewry, Sociology of Religion and Politics. His publications include The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah: The Unthought in Political Modernity (SUNY Press, 2009; Ben Gurion University Press, 2010 [Hebrew]);Philosophy of the Law (Shalem Press, 2012); andJudaism and the Spirit of the World (Grasset, 2011 [French]). He is also Founding Director of the College of Jewish Studies at the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris, and Founding Editor of two journals: Pardès: A European Journal of Jewish Studies and Culture and Controverses, a journal of political ideas.